I didn't get to finish this series as a kid, so I re-read it as an adult. This one is a little less action packed than the rest, but a good, long ending. Reminds me of the final Chronicles of Narnia.

Much like the last book in this series, I didn’t remember hardly anything about this one (except the shark people, I remembered them), and it was so fun to read it anew! The ending was perfect in how it tied up all the loose ends and explained everything (while still having some good surprises that I really didn’t recall). I have had so much fun rereading these books, and I’m certain I’ll read them again.

The story is .... *spoiler alert*The only suspence is finding the family tree of people who you couldn't care less.The leading character marries the same person like five times... and every other characters get together with someone and everyone lead a happily-ever-after life.

Wolf Wing (Claidi Journals #4), Tanith Lee‏‫‬‭London‏‫‬‭: Hodder Children's Books‏‫‬‭, 2007, 194pAt last, Claidi and her beloved Argul are free to get married. But before they can start their life together, Claidi must face her past. They return to her birthplace, the House, to rescue the other slaves? and find that there has been a revolution, sparked by Claidi's escape. Then the two are urgently summoned by Ironel Novendot of the Wolf Tower, who tells them that Ustareth is alive. Ustareth, the...

All of the mysteries are finally revealed in this final sequence of the "Claidi Journals!"Argul and Claidi are finally together. They have magic, they have freedom, and they have each other. With her new-found power, Claidi tries to free the servants of the House only to find they have already revolted after her escape. With a summons from the dreadful Wolf Tower, she and Argul discover they are not as free of the Wolf Clan as they had thought. The enigmatic Ustareth has all the answers, and she...

I don't know what to do about this series. These books are so insane that I can't even pick them apart. In this one, Claidi can FLY. And there is a tree that grows HAM. And she's kidnapped by walking, talking SHARKS. When I described it to a friend, she said, "It's like somebody wrote up a DeviantArt account" and she was so, so right. I was embarrassed by the cover art when I read on the train, but I didn't let that stop me. Anyway, I love them. I will carry them always in my heart.

First off, I enjoyed this series. Do not get me wrong. I would recommend it. However, by the end of this book, I was just ready for the series TO END. It seems to have way too many plot twists, and everything just "falls" into place at the end... but there seemed to be so much that "didn't belong" from the origination of the series. Perhaps it was just me, and it won't stop me from recommending the book, but I could have been happy ending with Book 3.

I loved this series...but my overall reaction to this installment, if I recall correctly, was something like: "?!?! #$%#$@!!1 *@#$@$^!!! WHAT THE *EXPlETIVE REMOVED*!!!!"At least Claidi got a somewhat happy ending...

I had to push myself to finish book 1, and then the following books, simply to find out what happens. Worse, I think the ending of the first book was better than the ending of the series. So unless you absolutely adore it, don't go beyond the first book. This series is a very odd, confusing read. While the storyline is very good, and also very creative, the different cultures and towns she comes to are so bizarre that you are left wondering where in the world the author came up with it all. I su...

2.5-3This one was a little bit of a dud for me, unfortunately. The beginning was fine, but the middle of it really started to decline for me. I thought the fantasy elements in this one got a little out of hand and unbelievable (like, I know it's a fantasy, but Sharkians [aka shark people] were just a little too much for me). Then when it gains some momentum and you think you're gonna get information, the action/adventure portion of the book is Claidi just wandering around for about 50 pages, and...

What?! I thought the series was over! Again. She (Lee) keeps wrapping up these Claidi books fairly nicely and I keep thinking that she's done, and then right about when it's been enough time for me to kinda forget about what happened in the last few books I find out that there's another one, I guess I'll add this to my to-read shelf o-o. It's not like these books are all that great, but something about them makes them hard to ignore. Haha, this is why I don't write reviews.

The end of the Claidi series, it feels like a fitting end. Claidi's journeys will continue on, but it feels like the end of an era. This series is so inventive, and while it requires a major suspension of disbelief, it's just FUN.Claidi's journey takes her to meet the ultimate creator - Ustareth, who seems to be alive. The characters that come along feel a little too pat, but honestly, who cares? I wanted to know what happened to all of them, particularly Venn. I wouldn't mind a spinoff based on...

As a stand alone book this might have been alright, but as an end to a series it fails to meet expectations. (view spoiler)[Once again Claidi is traveling into strange new places. She never seems to stay in one place for very long, which is fine, this however always leads to lengthy descriptions of her surroundings. Such observations were particularly painstaking in this book since the reader is left alone with Claidi for a long time. Her voice and writing style hasn't changed much since the fir...

31 August 2021. Finished Wolf Wing by Tanith Lee.Rating - 2 starsGenre - Fantasy / RomanceAudience - TeenBook 4 of the Claidi Journals series.Argul and Claidi have been reunited and are ready to finally get married, but before they do, they have some unfinished business.They've received an invitation from Ustareth, a science-sorcress who lives in a distant land, to come visit her. For many years, Ustareth has been manipulating their lives from far away. Claidi and Argul hope that by traveling to...

An aspiring fantasy writer once told me, "I thought you could just write whatever you want," when I told him several elements of his story did not make sense. Well, reading this series would definitely give a novice that impression. Very many impossible things happen for unknown reasons. Food appears out of trees, rooms in a castle move randomly, and towers fly through the air. But this experienced author makes them work. She does have rules, and she follows her rules, and you don't know what wi...

So I was a little disappointed in the final book of this quartet. I feel that Tanith didn't really bring it all together. She launched so many tendrils around the mysterious Ustareth throughout the books and her explanation of how it all went down , who Ustareth was, and who Claidi was in relation to her just felt like a massive cop out. Like "LET ME TIE TOGETHER ALL THESE LOOSE STRINGS IN A REALLY VAGUE SUMMARY FASHION." It felt like a sloppy bow on the series. The last book consisted primarily...

Claidi is off to rescue her old friend, Dengwi, from the House. Except it turns out Dengwi doesn’t need rescuing. And then it turns out that she does.The question, of course, is whether life with Claidi and her new husband, Argul, can possibly be safer than anywhere else.Wolf Wing is the fourth and most recent novel in Tanith Lee’s series about Claidi. Once again there is a grand new world to explore--one with trees that serve tea, sandwiches, and honey. Definitely channeled my Alice in Wonderla...

A better ending for the series than the disappointing third. This one was lighter on plot but full of wonders, more like the second, and therefore more to my taste.

Sadly, I found this to be the weakest of the books. It was packaged up nicely at the end as I expect from YA. But since the second book, I felt that Claidi and Argul really lost chemistry. I didn't believe them as a couple anymore, which was really disappointing. Here I was rooting for them and at the end they didn't have the spark they once had. And everyone else being paired off was pretty cheap but forgivable. They just worked up the mother to be this amazing, magical being and then it's like...

Not a great ending to not a great series. The family bloodlines are so damned complicated and I don't know why it was necessary. I didn't just stop caring about who was related to who, I NEVER cared. And...that's basically what the entire book is about. Bloodlines and weird settings that get described endlessly. I normally love the way Tanith Lee describes stuff but it wore on me big time in this series, maybe because of the narrator's voice.Don't really recommend it.